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Mobility News Weekly - Week of January 2, 2012

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The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly number exceeding one billion for the first time.   Read Original Content RIM’s share of U.S. mobile phone subscribers in the three months through November dropped to 6.5 percent from 7.1 percent in the previous quarter, according to research firm ComScore Inc.   Read Original Content According to market research firm NPD Group, the demand for tablets is expected to grow in the small and medium busi

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of January 2, 2012

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The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. comScore recently released new numbers on U.S. online holiday spending for the season-to-date, and found that consumers continued to shop online in record numbers. For the first 56 days of the November to December 2011 holiday season, $35.3 billion was spent online – an increase of 15 percent over the corresponding days last year, and a new record. Read Original Content Pew Research has recently studied the relationship between per capita income and technology.  In a recent study they found that as a country’s per capita income increased, so did the number of mobile devices and overall usage of social networking. Read Original Content According to comScore’s latest mobile subscriber data for November, the percentage of users who use apps has finally surpas

Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

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The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly Syclo has announced that its Agentry Mobile Platform, SMART Work Manager and SMART Service Manager have been named as winners in the tenth annual Mobile Star Awards program.   Read Original Content Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung has emerged as the most popular smartphone maker in the UK during 2011.   Read Original Content The smartphone market in China seems to be ever expanding, and adding to the sea of handsets is the recently launched Dell Streak Pro. This mobile device has been built as a follow up to the Dell Strea

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

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The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. According to a Prosper Mobile Insights survey, 23.5 percent of smartphone and tablet owners say their device has been an integral part of their holiday shopping experience so far and they could not shop without it. Read Original Content The cellular M2M embedded module market experienced a more difficult than expected year in 2010. Although total unit volumes continued to rise, reaching nearly 34 million units shipped in 2010, total industry revenue fell from roughly $996 million in 2009 to about $841 million in 2010, reversing the upward momentum in revenue seen in 2009 as the market rebounded from its 2008 lows. Read Original Content The market for EPC RFID hardware exceeded $354 Million in 2010, an increase of more than 140 percent over 2009.  VDC antic

Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly Android Market, Facebook, as well as Google apps such as Search, Gmail and Google Maps, are roughly the top most popular smartphone applications for the Android platform, according to Nielsen.   Read Original Content Already big in Japan, Panasonic has announced that it plans to take on the world’s smartphone manufacturers and make the leap into the European market.   Read Original Content Apple is learning to compromise.  Facing challenges winning over customers for its iAd mobile advertising service, Apple is softening its appro

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. The 2011 KPMG Mobile Payments Outlook, based on a survey of nearly 1,000 executives found that 83 percent of the respondents believe that mobile payments will be mainstream within four years (by 2015). A study by Gartner also ranked the top most trusted brands in mobile payments. Read Original Content StumbleUpon, the discovery engine that enables its users to "Stumble" onto personalized web content, recently redesigned its website to facilitate mobile users. Mobile users have increased 800 percent in the past year and have become the company’s main focus. Read Original Content According to Forrester, mobile commerce is expected to reach $31 billion by 2016. This represents a compounded annual growth rate of 39 percent from 2011 to 2016. Read Or

Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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The Mobile Medical News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly ABI Research recently released a report which predicts that the sports and health mobile app market is on pace to hit $400 million in revenues by 2016. Read Original Content In a bid to accommodate the aging population and the increasingly hectic lifestyles of their patients, physicians are embracing a broad spectrum of Web-based software solutions that are bringing healthcare services into the home. Read Original Content According to a new report from Juniper Research, the number of downloads for health-related apps in 2012 will tota

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. The above graphic illustrates the regions within China that are experiencing significant growth in the M2M market. China's Internet-of-things industry reached $193.3 billion in 2010. Read Original Content As computers and mobile devices continue to play an ever increasingly role in the lives of consumers, this holiday season has been projected to lead with the highest grossing revenues in online shopping ever recorded.  This graph compares the level of growth in online shopping interest between the week before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving week for 2010 and 2011, looking a sample covering hundreds of millions of ad impressions. Read Original Content Online radio company Pandora has experienced significant growth in the past two years. This sharp increa

Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly According to Nielsen, Apple has retained its place as the largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. in the third quarter with a nearly 30 percent share, while the overall market continues to shift toward smart devices, reports Fortune. Read Original Content China has leapfrogged the U.S. to become the world’s largest smartphone market by volume, according to third quarter figures released by Strategy Analytics.   Read Original Content New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically desi